California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Admission and Practice

• Section 1625.
  Dentistry is the diagnosis or treatment, by surgery or other method, of diseases and lesions and the correction of malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar...
• Section 1625.1.
  (a) Any of the following entities may employ licensees and dental assistants and charge for the professional services they render, and shall not be deemed to...
• Section 1625.2.
  (a) For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 1625, the ownership or management, by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation supported and maintained in whole or in substantial...
• Section 1625.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the incapacity or death of a dentist, if the requirements of Section 1625.4 are met, any of the...
• Section 1625.4.
  (a) Where the dental practice of an incapacitated or deceased dentist is a sole proprietorship or where an incapacitated or deceased dentist is the sole shareholder...
• Section 1625.5.
  The following written notification shall be included with, or as part of, all application forms required for a license to practice dentistry pursuant to this...
• Section 1626.
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of dentistry in the state, either privately or as an employee of a governmental...
• Section 1626.1.
  In addition to the exemptions set forth in Section 1626, the operations by bona fide students of registered dental assisting, registered dental assisting in extended...
• Section 1626.2.
  A dentist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 805, and thus is a health...
• Section 1626.5.
  (a) A licensed dentist, or group of dentists, or dental corporation shall not share in any fee charged by a person for performing acupuncture or receive...
• Section 1626.6.
  (a) (1) In addition to the exemptions set forth in Section 1626, the practice of dentistry by a final year student rendered or performed without compensation or...
• Section 1627.
  The license of any dentist, existing at the time of the passage of this chapter, shall continue in force until it expires or is forfeited...
• Section 1627.5.
  (a) No person licensed under this chapter, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency occurring outside the place of that...
• Section 1627.7.
  (a) A dentist shall not be liable for damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation occurring in the dentist’s office or in a...
• Section 1628.
  Any person over 18 years of age is eligible to take an examination before the board upon making application therefor and meeting all of the...
• Section 1628.5.
  The board may deny an application to take an examination for licensure as a dentist or dental auxiliary or an application for registration as a...
• Section 1628.7.
  (a) The board may, upon an applicant’s successful completion of the board examination, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant for licensure...
• Section 1629.
  (a) Any member of the board may inquire of any applicant for examination concerning his or her qualifications or experience and may take testimony of anyone...
• Section 1630.
  The examination of applicants for a license to practice dentistry in this state, as described in Section 1632, shall be sufficiently thorough to test the...
• Section 1632.
  (a) The board shall require each applicant to successfully complete the written examination of the National Board Dental Examination of the Joint Commission on National Dental...
• Section 1632.1.
  (a) With regard to the portfolio examination specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the board shall independently monitor and audit the standardization...
• Section 1632.5.
  (a) Prior to implementation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the department’s Office of Professional Examination Services shall review the Western Regional Examining...
• Section 1632.55.
  (a) Prior to implementation of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the department’s Office of Professional Examination Services shall review the...
• Section 1632.6.
  (a) As part of the ongoing implementation of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the board shall review the portfolio examination to ensure compliance...
• Section 1632.7.
  The Department of Finance may accept funds pursuant to Sections 11005.1 and 16302 of the Government Code for the purposes of reviewing and analyzing the...
• Section 1633.
  (a) When an applicant for a license has received a grading of 85 percent or above in any given subject, he or she shall be exempt...
• Section 1634.
  A person successfully passing the examination shall be registered as a licensed dentist on the board register, as provided in Section 1612, and shall be...
• Section 1634.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who submits all of the following to the board:(a) A completed...
• Section 1634.2.
  (a) An advanced education program’s compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 1634.1 shall be regularly reviewed by the department pursuant to Section 139.(b) An advanced education program...
• Section 1635.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who has not taken an examination before the board, if...
• Section 1635.7.
  Any person licensed pursuant to Section 1635.5 shall be required to fulfill continuing education requirements established by the board pursuant to Section 1645 before his...
• Section 1636.4.
  (a) The Legislature recognizes the need to ensure that graduates of foreign dental schools who have received an education that is equivalent to that of accredited...
• Section 1636.6.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to assure that the people of California receive the highest quality of dental care, dentists graduating...

Last modified: October 22, 2018